# Epigrammaton Libri 4.30

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 4.30. Latin.

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Baiano procul a lacu, monemus,
piscator, fuge, ne nocens recedas.
sacris piscibus hae natantur undae,
qui norunt dominum manumque lambunt
illam, qua nihil est in orbe maius.
Quid quod nomen habent et ad magistri
uocem quisque sui uenit citatus?
Hoc quondam Libys impius profundo,
dum praedam calamo tremente ducit,
raptis luminibus repente caecus
captum non potuit uidere piscem,
et nunc sacrilegos perosus hamos
Baianos sedet ad lacus rogator.
At tu, dum potes, innocens recede
iactis simplicibus cibis in undas,
et pisces uenerare delicatos.

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